1234–1277), was an influential Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. Yahyah Ibn Sharaf ibn Marri ibn Hassan ibn Hussain ibn Muhammad ibn Juma ibn Hazm Abu Zakaria al-Nawawī Abu Zakaria Yahya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (: أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي 1233–1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī (631–676 A.H.